Night portraits

Night portraits by Belladonna https://civitai.com/user/BelladonnaBlue HOW TO USE Most of the examples were done with just the LoRA invoked at various strengths. If you want to reinforce the style, tokens like splatter style, textured backdrop, blood splatter, or paint splatter and drips can draw it in tighter. I recommend a strength between 0.5 and 0.9, depending on the prompt. Generally, higher for simple prompts, lower for more complex ones, or it might gobble up the details and ignore you. I've provided several examples with various prompts (including the ubiquitous 'guy in mech armor') and some comparisons of base model vs. LoRA activated. Examples are all on the SDXL base model with refiner on 15% of steps, but no additional hi-res, upscaling, or img2img, just my txt2img outputs. I do not yet have examples of its performance on other models or with other LoRA, though it's on my to-do list. Preliminary looks suggest it works with other models, but seems prone to ignore the prompt and may need to be scaled back. Many of the examples utilized my urban fantasy Wildcards (which I may get around to posting eventually). By Night Portraits works well with them, and combining the two makes a decent, consistent Dark Ages character generator between them. Unintended Uses It produces interesting results on prompts that aren't character portraits, so that's worth playing with. See below: Prompt: a giant monster hybrid of dragon and spider, in dark dense foggy forest, <lora:splatter_lora:1> TO DO Plans for future versions and things I hope to address: More/better examples on other models, with other LoRA, and using more varied settings Better diversity (it's not terrible, but needs improvement) Improved understanding for equipment, armor, and clothing types More vampire traits without getting cartoony, but fangs, glowing eyes, claws, and more gaunt, pale skin types without turning the character into a pallid ghoul Addition of more modern/gothic-punk training for more contemporary Vampire: the Masquerade style portraits (V1 can do it, it could just be better.) More fullbody training for better dynamic action poses (V1 primarily understands portrait posing). Training in concepts of vampire "clans" (a la V:tM) or at least "styles" of vampire (i.e. - feral, monstrous, Dracula-style noble, socialite, assassin, blood mage, etc.) And maybe more! Ideally I'd like to branch into other supernatural splats (werewolves, changelings, mages, and so on) and cultivate other forms of consistent portrait 'styles'. If I get really ambitious, I'd like to have a fully finetuned urban fantasy model to give me results oriented toward things like the World of Darkness, True Blood, Castlevania, The Magicians, Supernatural, etc., by default. But we'll see how it goes. I'd love to see what you make with V1! As many examples as I tried to provide, I know I'm not the world's most creative prompter. I'd love to see how it responds to different characters (and unintended use-cases). The more data I have, the more I can see what I'd like to shore up in V2. Don't hesitate to contact me with questions or comments, if something doesn't seem to be working right or if you have any suggestions. Thank you and enjoy! (Now go make some bloodsuckers.)